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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Deal families could support redistricting so that fewer kids were IB for the school. If Lafayette and Coolidge went to Wells and Coolidge and Bancroft (and Oyster) went to MacFarland and Roosevelt, there would be more opportunity to play sports, along with many other advantages.[/quote]

It makes zero sense to redistrict Lafayette to anywhere else. It is a 10 minute walk to Deal. Why make kids travel across the park? Shepard and Bancroft should be going to Wells, if anything.[/quote]

Shepherd is small. They only send 25-30 kids there a year. How does removing the main source of diversity help the over crowding. Makes no sense [/quote]

It isn't the main source of diversity.[/quote]

If Shepherd sends 25-30 diverse students to Deal (though it is 17% white, so maybe not all of those students are diverse?), then:

Lafayette alone has more diverse students matriculate to Deal than Shepherd (~40).
Murch alone has more diverse students matriculate to Deal than Shepherd (~37).
Even Janney, the school with the highest percentage of white students, has more diverse students matriculate to Deal than Shepherd (~29).

You may not appreciate just how large these elementary schools are. At Lafayette, for example, 31% diversity = 275 students, which isn't far off from the total enrollment of Shepherd. At Murch, 43% diversity = 259 students.

Only Hearst (49% diverse) sends slightly fewer diverse students than Shepherd, and that's because it too is a smaller school.

Every school feeds diversity into Deal. I don't have an opinion about changing boundaries, but I think it is important to recognize that diverse students come from all schools. So it appears that removing Shepherd only (which I do not advocate), would decrease Deal's diversity by less than 1% per year until it stabilized in year 3. So, you will need to find a stronger argument to fight change should anything be proposed. Personally, I would focus on the fact that Shepherd students are coming from a less diverse school (83% minority, which meets most definitions of a segregated student population), and so have the most to gain by matriculating to a more diverse middle school, Deal, which does not have a segregated population (defined as >80% minority). Then again, due to its size, sending Lafayette to a new middle school with Shepherd also accomplishes this goal and creates another non-segregated middle school population in the city, in addition to Deal, Hardy, and Oyster-Adams.

Also, according to Google maps, it is a 29 minute walk from the Lafayette building to the Deal building, and for the closest Lafayette families (former Murch boundary) is it s 15 minute walk, and for the farthest Lafayette homes, it is a one hour walk. Not a 10 minute walk.[/quote]

Now do it with Black students. Yes, Hispanic and Asian add to diversity, but black population is still the plurality of this city and schools like Janney and Lafayette send approximately 5-7 black students to Deal every year. That number is getting smaller every year. I believe this year’s 5th grade at Lafayette has 3-4 black students. Shepherd’s 5th grade is approximately 40 black students (for a school 1/3 the size).[/quote]

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